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w3.salemstate. edu The Nile looks like a snake going through the hottest place in ancient Egypt. The country of Egypt is located in the northeast cost of Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on the north. The Nile goes north to the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is dividing into two rivers, the white and blue Nile, because of that the Nile never dries up. The West is Libya, south is Sudan, East of Egypt is the Aqua and the northeast is Israel and the Gaza Strip, throughout Egypt the most important thing is the Nile. It is the Egyptians lifeline. Without the river the land would be mostly desert. The Nile River is the longest river in the world; in fact it travels over 4,000 miles. In Ancient time Egypt was divided into two regions. Upper and lower Egypt is located in the south of the Delta. Lower Egypt is the Northern part and upper “Egypt is the southern part of the Nile River. [|www.freewebs.] com Ancient Egyptians is divided into three seasons. The seasons are the flood, planting, and harvesting season. June to September is the flood season. In that season, people have to work outside the fields. Most of the people work on building temples and pyramids. The floods comes every, but only once a year and it comes from the Eastern mountains. When rain comes to the mountain’s snow will melts making a flood. Then October to February is the planting season. The soil gets moist during this time and it is then good for planting. The last season was harvest season. During that time they would harvest crops thresh and grain. Without the Nile, Egypt would not even be known today. **// __Geography Of Ancient Egypt__ //** emsnews.wordpress.com The surface of Ancient Egypt is covered with thick lime layers, and it is cover with Nubian’s rocks every from Edfo till the Nile Delta. Ancient Egypt appears beneath water of the Era. Egypt was formed from one slope to another sharp slope. The first slope came from the south to north, straight to the Nile. The other part came from east to west was from the shores of the red sea. It all took place in east side of Sudan. It volcano then affected the water from the river. After the Nile Valley had been created the rains came, it made several water streams. The Nile River stream had been blocked during the early days. You can see that the Nile dose not really face the Nubian rocks. This rock was used for a couple of waterfalls that begin in the Selsela city at the south where the river is. Beyond the Nile river is only desert. There are six large water falls called cataracts. **// __Plants__ //** www.nhtmri.org Ancient Egypt also had plants. One of them was called 'lotus', lily. This flower belongs to the papyrus flower and you can see it throughout Egypt. Ancient Egyptians grew many crops like wheat, barley, legumes, lettuce, onions, emmer, leeks, dill, grapes, melons and gourds. They also grew trees like christ’s thorn, date palm and eucalyptus. Some other flowers were lily and lotus, tamarisk, papyrus, acacia, Poinciana and jacaranda. They used oils from the castor plant and saffron. Contrary to popular belief, olives were not grown in Egypt. The Egyptians saw that the blue water lily opened up each morning, seeing the intense golden center set against the blue petals, seemingly an imitation of the sky that would greet the sun, and it gives out perfumes.
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**// __Animals__ //** classroom109afternoonegypt.wikispaces.com There are many kinds of animals like fish or mollusks, People would never eat the fishes from the Nile. Ancient Egyptians actually worshiped the crocodile which lived in the Nile. You could also see a lot of birds and animals such as the snakes, camels, scorpions, rabbits and other small rodents, hippopotamus, cats, antelopes and gazelles, hyenas, cattle, and dogs. Pigs were another animal that people thought were dirty, in fact, if a person actually touched a pig, they would immediately take a bathe in the river with their clothes on. The only people who could touch a pig were the pig farmers, who were who did not have a lot of money. No one would accuse the ancient Egyptians of not having very well nice imaginations. Most of the gods in Ancient Egypt were half animal and half human shape. Essentially, they took parts of different animals in order to create a whole not found in nature. Hence, here we will consider only creatures without human parts, even though both such creatures. Usually, such animals were actually considered as modern concepts, though in fact the Egyptians seem not to have made nearly so accurately distinctions between demons and gods. All the birds that live in the Nile are falcon, kite, cranes, geese, herons, plovers, pigeons, ibis, vultures and owls.

By: Christine You, Lennan Sarathchandra, Myrea Jaigirdar 6A